Ecumenical Patriarchate

CONSTANTINOPLE -- His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I has begun the process of Sanctifiying Holy Chrism during these first days of Passion Week. The consecration will be complete during Vesperal Liturgy on Holy Thursday. Read more...

In recent times, we observe an elevated level of concern. Many challenges arise. The world is suffering and yearns for help. Indeed, we are going through a general test. Some people call it a financial decline; others refer to it as a political crisis. So far as we are concerned, it is a matter of spiritual perversion. And a solution exists. Many resolutions are proposed and numerous viewpoints are heard. Yet, the problems persist. People feel deserted and alone. Their deeper nature is ignored. They remain in the gloom of confusion and depression.
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JOHNSTOWN, PA -- Very Rev. Protopresbyter Michael Rosco has departed today for Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) where he will officially represent our Diocese at celebrations this weekend (October 22-23, 2011) at The Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George marking the twentieth anniversary of the Enthronment of His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as Ecumenical Patriarch.
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NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America upon the invitation of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and on the occasion of the Feast of the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos, is accompanying His All Holiness on August 14-16, 2011 on a pilgrimage to the historic monastery of Panagia Soumela near Trapezounta on the mountains rising up on the south coast of the Black Sea. Read more...

The occurrences and events of our time may not seem to justify the exultation of our greeting. The natural destruction caused by seismic tremors and oceanic swells, together with the lurking devastation from possible nuclear explosion, as well as the human sacrifices resulting from military conflict and terrorist action, reveal our world to be in horrible torment and anguish from the pressure of the Read more...